Problems with Time machine caused by removing PKCS11.log?

I haven't yet found a solution to my Time Machine no longer backing up: "while an error occurred while copying files to the backup disk"
I requested help before, but so far nobody could help me solve this problem!
I noticed that I removed, in a file clean up, a log file: PKCS11.log."
I still have this file in the Trash but can not restore this file from Trash to its original location because I don't know its original location. The command" restore", or "put back" does not figure in the menu of Trash.
It can be that the removal of this log file causes the back up problem in Time Machine?
As you will notice from the above, I know very little about software and subjects like this and hope that somebody can help me to get Time Machine backing up again.
Thanks on beforehand!
Harry

I am sorry that my message is presented in this "step-by-step way, but it can be that the following lessage from TM Buddy Widget is important?
Starting standard backup
Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://Harry%[email protected]/Data
Mounted network destination using URL: afp://Harry%[email protected]/Data
QUICKCHECK ONLY; FILESYSTEM CLEAN
Disk image /Volumes/Data/Harry Briels’s iMac.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups
Backing up to: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
No pre-backup thinning needed: 8.22 GB requested (including padding), 464.29 GB available
Indexing a file failed. Returned 200 for: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PCD/cache/cache.db, /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/HarryBrielsiMac/2013-07-04-181224.inProgress/46F8E230- 1335-4D3C-BA4F-E6A4B2AB0C07/Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PCD/cache/cache.db
Aborting backup because indexing a file failed.
Stopping backup.
Copied 86 files (266.0 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
Harry

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Oct 28 09:25:44 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 242.1 MB requested (including padding), 351.94 GB available
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Oct 28 09:41:35 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: No pre-backup thinning needed: 159.6 MB requested (including padding), 351.94 GB available
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Oct 28 09:47:18 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Starting post-backup thinning
Oct 28 09:49:15 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of MBA/Backups.backupdb/MBA/2008-10-27-090710: 351.94 GB now available
Oct 28 09:50:46 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of MBA/Backups.backupdb/MBA/2008-10-27-061332: 351.94 GB now available
Oct 28 09:52:53 MBA /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[8464]: Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup of MBA/Backups.backupdb/MBA/2008-10-27-050805: 351.94 GB now available
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HT1338 problems with time machine and parallels desktop, mac osx mountain lion 10.8

have a good day, i have been problems with time machine and parallels desktop, dont work in mac osx 10.8, i upgrate two mac´s (macbook air, imac), in the two machines shows problems, could you help me please.
two machines have good ram memory (macbook air 11.1 2010 early , imac 2009 late).
i am waiting for your help.
thanks.
Jesus.

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http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
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I am having problems with Time Machine and having enough space to finish my last back up.

Take a look at this link, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427

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Hello all,
Grateful for anyone's help with this issue.
Firstly, a summary of specs:
Mac OS X 10.7.
Late 2007 Macbook 13inch
External hard drive - LaCie 1TB D2 Quaddra
Issue - When trying to back up my 2007 Macbook it fails! When I back up my 2011 MacBook Pro (to the same external hard disk) it works fine!
I have reviewed a whole load of advice on here, some I am able to understand others that I unable too! Sorry! Now stuck so thought I would post on here in the hope sometime might be able to give me some advice.
I have downloaded a widget which helped me view the error message details (found that advice on the excellent Pondini website).
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Backing up to: /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb
Backup content size: 136.3 GB excluded items size: 8.2 GB for volume Macintosh HD
153.65 GB required (including padding), 465.32 GB available
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Error: (-47) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Address Book.app/Contents/MacOS/Address Book to /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb/Mike surname removed’s MacBook/2012-12-26-120325.inProgress/560DC4C6-DFCE-48AA-B430-457C461AEA0F/Macin tosh HD/Applications/Address Book.app/Contents/MacOS
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Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb
Backup content size: 136.3 GB excluded items size: 8.3 GB for volume Macintosh HD
153.62 GB required (including padding), 465.32 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Stopping backup.
Error: (-47) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/adidas miCoach Manager.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions/4/QtCore to /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb/Mike surname removed’s MacBook/2012-12-26-120325.inProgress/65EE1FE8-D548-4CAD-AEC7-9B6A4C12FAD9/Macin tosh HD/Applications/adidas miCoach Manager.app/Contents/Frameworks/QtCore.framework/Versions/4
Copied 12 files (2.7 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
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Backup failed with error: 11
So I then excluded miCoach, but it failed again! This time with this message:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb
Backup content size: 136.3 GB excluded items size: 8.3 GB for volume Macintosh HD
153.59 GB required (including padding), 465.32 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Stopping backup.
Error: (-47) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Adobe Flash Player 9/Install Flash Player 9 UB.app/Contents/InstallerData/Installer.data to /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb/Mike surname removed’s MacBook/2012-12-26-120325.inProgress/B7A9D12A-B391-4AD7-907D-01828917DF39/Macin tosh HD/Applications/Adobe Flash Player 9/Install Flash Player 9 UB.app/Contents/InstallerData
So I excluded Adobe Flash Player, and....failed again, this time blaming the Calculator
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb
Backup content size: 136.3 GB excluded items size: 8.3 GB for volume Macintosh HD
153.59 GB required (including padding), 465.32 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (100)
Stopping backup.
Error: (-47) SrcErr:NO Copying /Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/Resources/Calculator.icns to /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb/Mike surname removed’s MacBook/2012-12-26-120325.inProgress/60CC7EAA-FCE7-4FC3-B946-8B999E574797/Macin tosh HD/Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/Resources
Copied 2760 files (27.1 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
The way this is going I will not have any information left to back up!!
Any advice warmly received.
Merry Christmas

miketangokilo wrote:
Error: (-47) SrcErr:NO Copying /Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler/Sampler Files/Steel String Acoustic Guitar/50B-1GA1-B2.aif to /Volumes/Mike/Backups.backupdb/Mike Surname removed’s MacBook/2012-12-26-120325.inProgress/8614198B-1C54-4CF1-8C24-DDD9692FB82C/Macin tosh HD/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler/Sampler Files/Steel String Acoustic Guitar
We don't know exactly what error (-47) means. Apple used to publish lists of error code, many years ago, before OSX, but very few now. It's clearly something to do with the file named, but just what isn't clear.
But we do know that SrcErr:NO means the error is not on the "source" -- ie, your Mac. It seems to be a problem writing the file to the TM drive.
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Also, be sure the disk has either the GUID (preferred) or APM partition map scheme. Click the top line in Disk Utility's sidebar, and that will be shown at the lower right. If it's MBR (Master Boot Record), that's a Windows setup, and sometimes doesn't work well with Time Machine, especially if there are multiple partitions.
Prior to OSX, error -47 meant the file was busy. If that's still true, something may be trying to access it while it's being written. If you're running any anti-virus apps on that Mac, or anything else that might be looking at the backup drive, exclude the TM drive from it, or, better, turn it off. Antivirus apps can interfere with TM backups -- some can even damage them.

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The problem manifests after a Time Machine backup.
I have an iMac 24-inch, Early 2008. iMac 8,1
Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM.
Last week I purchased two 4-Terabyte G-technology G-Drives. Each drive is equip with FireWire 800 and USB 3.0/2.0. In general use they seem to work fine on the iMac.
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Time Machine will do the initial backup just fine. Then it runs once per hour with no problem. Intermittently however, Time Machine will fail and report :
“Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup to “hard disk name”.
Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder.”
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If I try to eject the volume I get the irksome “Cannot eject volume because it’s currently in use by one or more programs.”
To resolve this I’ve tried everything, from the banal verifying permissions, to swapping the two G-Drives around, swapping out all the cables, etc.. When the error occurs I go into the shell and check with lsof and always find no software apparently holding or using that volume.
Very frustrating
I can force eject the volume, then remount the volume and things are back to normal. Same with restarting.
This happened under OS X Mountain Lion and is now happening under a clean install of Mavericks.
I thought that even though I don’t see any MDS related processes using the drive, it might be spotlight, so I told spotlight not to index the volume. Problem still happens.
I’ve found that one person had almost this exact same problem at:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4756742
His solution turned out to be replacing the G-Drive with another brand new G-Drive.
Unfortunately, I cannot return the drives to the Apple store because the boxes were tossed out. I also don’t relish trying to explain that the drives work just fine until some glitch that occurs either just before or just after a Time Machine backup.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

You can also contact G-Drive while the drives are under warranty (one year I believe).
I have the same problem using Time Machine with the 2T G-Drive and my MacBook Pro. G-Tech emailed me a Firmware Update Utility app and, when that didn't solve the error message problem, they sent me a replacement drive and new cables, twice. The problem persisted; I get one or two backups each day and then the error message. I also can't copy anything to the drive and have to force eject it, so G-Tech suggested I see how well it worked with the USB cable.
Time Machine works flawlessly with the USB cable and the G-Drive, so G-Tech suggested it is a problem with my Firewire 800 port. I worked with Apple Care over the phone, doing all the tests suggested in Eric's post - testing with Disk Utility, Time Machines interface with my User Accounts, the Operating System, then resetting Time Machine, etc. and then I took it to the Genius Bar so they could run the tests themselves. All looked like it should be fine (but they were using a 1T G-Drive and all testing was done within 30 minutes)...when I got home, after two good backups, I got the error message again.
Apple Care finally suggested I make a Genius Bar appointment and sit at the store working with my MacBook, the G-Drive and Time Machine running until I got the error message, to prove the only thing left that could possibly be the cause of the problem, is the port. I did this last Wednesday.
It is 9 days later and I got my computer back this afternoon...the logic board was replaced because the Firewire 800 port is attached to it...I got my first Time Machine back up at 5:34pm...and the error message again at 7:34pm.
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I hope the USB works for you too.

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When I run a backup, it prepares about 100,000 items, then starts to backup, usually about 650mb. It crawls along in kb until it gets to about 1mb, then jumps quickly to the end, but then it adds extra mb on the end. Then it suddenly starts again "preparing x items....." and off it goes again.
I have tried repairing the backup disc, and it appears to be ok. I even erased it and started again. Time Machine did a full backup (139gb) in about 2 hours, then immediately added another 640mb at the end - strange, but I do at least have a full backup from yesterday. But now, everytime I run backup, it looks for the same sort of figure (650-700mb) and then goes round in circles.
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Thank you for your reply. Here are the screenshots for each change:
Having prepared about 95,000 items, the backup of 612mb begins
14 minutes later a message appears
Another 3 minutes and another message. You will see from this screenshot that the backup figure has changed to 613.1mb
Another 30 seconds and it all begins again....
And finally, 7 more minutes pass, another 96,000 items are prepared, and another 604.8mb backup begins.
I might add, that between posting this morning, and your reply, I also went into disk utility, chose the top leve of the external drive, clicked on the partition tab, charged current to 1 partition, renamed the drive, erased it, and did a full back up of 139GB. After 137GB it started again, looked for 602mb, backed them up and finished the backup, which is why TM states that the last back up was at 18:16 today.
Thanks again
David

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Hi - am hoping someone can help me.
My laptop got stolen last week and I bought a new one yesterday. The old one was kind of messy - I'd had it for a while and had been living with some weird error messages and that sort of thing - so I only wanted to transfer certain files - photos, music, movies and a few documents - to the new one from Time Machine via an external hard drive.
I set up as a new user and chose to use Migration Assistant to transfer the files afterwards. It seemed to work fine but on closer inspection no files created after 2008 (ie any new music or photos) transferred. It's the photos I'm mostly worried about as I used Senuti on my iPod to recover the music and the video files were saved to the same external hard drive Time Machine was using but seem to be accessible. When I 'browse other Time Machine disks' and go into the last backup the Pictures folder has the little red minus/stop symbol on it, so I'm thinking it might be a permissions issue? I've tried restoring that folder but nothing changes.
I'm wondering if I need to go back to migration assistant and start again but transferring everything this time? Will that even make a difference? Am hoping the files aren't lost forever (I'm a mum)!
Please don't tell me how hopeless I am at all this or get narky - I know it and I'm already in a world of misery about the stolen mac and missing pics...

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I recently had to do a restore all with time machine. I made sure everything was backed up before hand and ran the Leopard install disk. Went to utilities and did a restore all from time machine backup with no problem. Chose the date I wanted of March 24, 2009 and began running the restore which took about 2 hours. When everything came back up it seemed to have restored no problem but it used one of my backups from a year ago.
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
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Problems with Time Machine Restore all

I recently had to do a restore all with time machine. I made sure everything was backed up before hand and ran the Leopard install disk. Went to utilities and did a restore all from time machine backup with no problem. Chose the date I wanted of March 24, 2009 and began running the restore which took about 2 hours. When everything came back up it seemed to have restored no problem but it used one of my backups from a year ago. I tried running a restore all again choosing a different date of March 23, 2009 and it keeps restoring to the random backup from a year ago. Has anyone else had a problem like this?

Supermonk61 wrote:
I recently had to do a restore all with time machine. I made sure everything was backed up before hand and ran the Leopard install disk. Went to utilities and did a restore all from time machine backup with no problem. Chose the date I wanted of March 24, 2009 and began running the restore which took about 2 hours. When everything came back up it seemed to have restored no problem but it used one of my backups from a year ago.
Hi, and welcome to the forums.
Why do you think it restored the wrong backup?

Problem with Time Machine backup

Hi all,
i've been really excited about Lion and managed to get it and install it in under 50 minutes!
It works great, even with my Office:Mac software, antivirus software and so on, fantastic considering other people have had issues.
The one issue I seem to have is Lion working with its own application! Namely Time Machine!
I have a 3Tb Western Digital My Book Live NAS which I bought a few weeks ago. I only use it for backing up my Macbook Pro and my Wifes Macbook and its been faultless with Time Machine, however when I try and continue running this with Lion I get an error saying;
The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features
From what I can find on the web this seems to be something to do with the NAS as apposed to Time Machine however I would have thought this would have been addressed before people like myself had the problem - After all i'm sure everyone will agree, back-ups are extremely important!
If anyone has any suggestions how I can fix this I would be greatful
Matt

HI all,
wow, thanks for all the fast replies, at least it seems i'm not the only one having these issues.
I contacted apple support about this and there suggestion was to connect the disc up to my laptop and run diagnostics on it, however as its a NAS I only have an ethernet connection so that makes it difficult to connect directly. As it is I also logged a call with Western Digital and they have come back to me with a similar comment that Alex Lui has made in this discussion, namely that it is going to be fixed but not until August time.
I've managed to sort out my back-ups all be it using Western Digitals WD Anywhere Backup software which does make me feel a little bit safer (even though its having to back up everything and says that will take approx 34 hours!)
I'd have hoped Apple would have seen this coming, especially as I would guess its not only Western Digital drives that have this incompatability, however I suppose they were up to their eyebrows with other stuff they had to sort out before they could release Lion.

Interesting problem with Time Machine and Spotlight

As I was searching for spotlight problems in time machine, I came across many discussions about the indexing and whether or not to include your external Time Machine back up drive. My drive has always been indexed and one day when I plugged it in, it ran a quick index which hadn't happened before. I put it in the Spotlight Privacy Tab in Preferences not really knowing what I was doing, and after that whenever I opened Time Machine I couldn't search for files on my external HD - it just wouldn't find them even though I could navigate backward without using spotlight and find the specific files myself.
Thinking all I needed to do was take my Time Machine drive out of the privacy tab, I did so but am still encountering the same problem. Although - it seems to be a little bit better. Say I have a file on my desktop labeled "First Draft" - I backup TM, delete the file from my main comp, then back up TM again to simulate a lost file over time. I search in spotlight "First Draft" click the back arrow and am easily taken to my missing file - exactly how TM should work.
However, I have a folder named "First Draft" that I backed up a while ago, deleted, and now replaced with a new folder with the same name but with different files in them, then Time Machine can only seem to find my current folder. I search "First Draft" in spotlight in TM and then click back, but it can't seem to find it - it just goes back to the first backup date with a blank window. I know it's there because when I take off the search words and navigate through a certain day, I can see the files. Does anyone else have this problem? It's such a detailed problem - sorry it took a long time to explain. I hope you understand my problem. Thanks for your time!

Nevermind - what's even stranger is that right after I posted this - it fixed itself. Wow I hate when that happens...

Problem with Time Machine/Finder not finding and (keeping) remote drive

I have a Mac Pro and hooked 2 Western Digital My Book 750GB drives via Firewire onto it to use as my time machine backup for the two MBP's in the house.
The problem I run into may be more network related than Time Machine related. I have the file sharing turned on in Mac OS 10.5.2. I am able to select Mac Pro in Finder on each MBP and then under that select my Time Machine drive. Then within Time Machine I can select the My Book as my Time Machine drive. At this point I have no problem using Time Machine.
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How can I get around this? It seems i have to make some type of permanent logon or so to this drive.

1. try plugging in directly (think you did this already)
2. try a different cable - switch to the one you know works.
3. try a different port on the case.
4. does the faulty one power up at all? can you hear the drive spinning?
5. try switching to the good power adapter if you are not seeing action under #4.
there may also be a reset button on the board or case.
if these are not working, then the bridgeboard has died in the case. there is a board that the drive plugs into that gives you the firewire, usb connections, etc. the drive likely hasn't failed, you just need a new bridgeboard or case, as I doubt maxtor will sell you just that part. the drive can be pulled & put into another case.
check out macsales.com if you need a new case.

Mountain Lion: problem with Time Machine directories and spotlight indexing

I'm using a fresh install of 10.8 Mountain Lion on a 2011 MBP. It's a work laptop with many ASCII files containing numerical data (floating point numbers), with varying file extensions. Some of the files are multi-gig, some are only a few hundred K, and there are tens of thousands of them. Roughly 500G of numerical data.
I can disable spotlight from indexing certain subdirectories of my home directory on the local drive. However, when using Time Machine to backup, I seem to be entirely unable to prevent spotlight from attemping to fully index the external drive (Time Machine volume). I actually let spotlight run for over 36 hours this weekend in a futile attempt for it to finish indexing the TM volume. The /.Spotlight-V100 index on the external drive is roughly 100G and continuously written and overwritten. /var/log/system.log had various "Merging failed" messages for temp spotlight files. I deleted the index, let spotlight run again overnight, but it did not finish indexing. "sudo fs_usage -f filesys mds mdworker mdimport mdworker32 | grep open" showed spotlight slowly chugging through the thousands of numerical files.
I believe the problem is related to this old report from someone who noticed a leopard -> snow leopard change:
http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=106703
http://forums.cnet.com/7723-6126_102-366184/snow-leopard-10-6-spotlight-indexing -and-disk-usage/
However, I don't see an easy solution. In ML, if you drag the TM volume to the spotlight privacy list it gives you a message about how you can't disable indexing of TM volumes because it's essential for TM. I have not yet tried to manually put in some kind of .metadata_never_index file in the relevant TM volume directories (I am not sure if that will do anything, or perhaps break TM backups), but that's one possible next step.
Anyone have ideas on how I can have my TM backups work but the spotlight indexing of all these data files (their subdirectories) disabled? I'm not specifically TRYING to back up those data files with TM (they're duplicated elsewhere), they're just on the same machine as a bunch of other stuff I need backed up via TM. Apple has a disaster on their hands for anyone trying to backup a machine which also has large data sets.

I'm not aware of any avenue to tell spotlight to not index all or part of a backup.
However, the indexing should work, even if takes a long time.
I don't think this is a new issue and has been part of TM from the start.
Realistically, it may be time to consider whether TM is the best choice for these data files?
Are they very volatile do they change frequently both as to content of individual files and total set of files?
If not, then a clone or syncing type of backup might be better suited for these files.
I do not back up all my files via time machine. I keep photographs and music outside of Time Machine. to be sure they are backed up but via clones.
To show why this might the best take photographs. My photographs are basically immutable once they enter the system, but I may come back with 5000 images from a trip and whittle that down to a few hundred eventually. This would cause a lot of files to be saved in TM that are no longer wanted, - but are not easy to remove formthe backup. while the ones I want haven't changed. TM is not geared to make handling that easily.
As a further aside, ideally one should back everything of value up twice via 2 different means.
I've had backup drives fail.I've had TM logically fail (disk is fine -TM internal data structures bad).

Problems with Time Machine backup for two machines to one external drive

I have a brand new WD 500GB USB My Book external drive plugged into my Intel Mac Mini running 10.5.1 to use as a TM backup drive (TM reformatted it to HFS+ journaled). The Mini's connected by ethernet to the Airport Extreme. It works great. I setup my wife's MacBook Pro 17" Dual Core 2 w. 10.5.1 for TM using the Mac Mini's TM backup drive and it works fine (a little slower at 811.n wi-fi speeds, but OK). I have the Mac Mini setup in Energy Saver to shut down at night and restart in the morning. The morning after I setup my wife's MacBook Pro for TM I found a big black & white message (in half a dozen languages) on the Mac Mini saying start up failed and I need to reboot using the power button. I did and everything was cool. Now comes the problem, it's done it three days in a row so it looks like there is a problem with the TM setup. It didn't do this before I setup my wife's computer for TM.
Any thoughts on what is causing this? We've had minimal problems with Leopard setup (short of a brief hunt for an Airport Extreme Drive and a couple of network printers during initial setup).

1 mistake @ a time wrote:
I works fine over a network if the TM drive is attached to another Mac running Leopard. It won't work with an Airport drive (Apple deep sixed that feature in the final release).
We have an Airport Extreme base station, and we plan to add an Airport Express to boost the power to reach the second floor. We are ordering 4 iMacs, 20", plus I have the Macbook 13" that I have had for a few months.
We thought we could connect one large external drive via firewire cable to one of the iMacs and use it to back up all five computers via Time Machine.
Is that possible, or does everybody need their own external drive?
Thanks!
susan

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